Two men are facing charges after being accused of using Facebook emojis to threaten an Upstate man.

A 22-year-old Campobello man called the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office and said that David Fuentes and Lee Matthew Cowan, both 29 from Landrum, had been sending the emojis and threatening Facebook comments to the man’s cellphone starting on Saturday night. The man said that Fuentes used an emoji that is similar to a gesture h

e he recently used to represent pointing a gun when driving past his house. He said Fuentes also made threats to come into his home.

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The man showed deputies other threatening cellphone messages from Cowan in which he used emojis for an ambulance and a closed fist.

Deputies said there were previous complaints filed by the man against Fuentes and Cowan on May 14. In that instance, the man said Fuentes and Cowan had gone to the man’s house with the intention of assaulting him.

The man said that in an incident that was not reported, Fuentes threatened him with a gun at a gas station in Campobello.

The incident report said that because the incidents happened within 90 days and established a pattern that caused the victim to fear being attacked, Fuentes and Cowen were charged with stalking.

They have since been released from the Spartanburg County Detention Center.